{"product_id":"yale-needs-women-anne-gardiner-perkins-9781492687740","title":"Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Perkins makes the story of these early and unwitting feminist pioneers come alive against the backdrop of the contemporaneous civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1970s, and offers observations that remain eerily relevant on U.S. campuses today.\"--Edward B. Fiske, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eFiske Guide to Colleges\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"If Yale was going to keep its standing as one of the top two or three colleges in the nation, the availability of women was an amenity it could no longer do without.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the winter of 1969, from big cities to small towns, young women across the country sent in applications to Yale University for the first time. The Ivy League institution dedicated to graduating \"one thousand male leaders\" each year had finally decided to open its doors to the nation's top female students. The landmark decision was a huge step forward for women's equality in education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr was it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe experience the first undergraduate women found when they stepped onto Yale's imposing campus was not the same one their male peers enjoyed. Isolated from one another, singled out as oddities and sexual objects, and barred from many of the privileges an elite education was supposed to offer, many of the first girls found themselves immersed in an overwhelmingly male culture they were unprepared to face. \u003cem\u003eYale Needs Women\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of how these young women fought against the backward-leaning traditions of a centuries-old institution and created the opportunities that would carry them into the future. Anne Gardiner Perkins's unflinching account of a group of young women striving for change is an inspiring story of strength, resilience, and courage that continues to resonate today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Gardiner Perkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 149268774X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781492687740\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sourcebooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/12\/2019 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2019 pg. 9","brand":"Anne Gardiner Perkins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043600593151,"sku":"9781492687740","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e649c43-054c-46f4-ae34-903bef9e028f.jpg?v=1684968097","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/yale-needs-women-anne-gardiner-perkins-9781492687740","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}